Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-7·1960–1961

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961H. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 27 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-7 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-7, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Region Pt 385 Sector 64: Mixed pottery Iron Age to Middle Bronze. Not very characteristic, Nothing preserved - 1 kind of weight in black marble. (drawing) 1 loom weight in terracotta (drawing) 1 sling bullet No. 206 1/2 hammer in white marble (drawing) 2 spindle whorls in steatite of the discoid type common.

Material South Trench, 3rd trench Coarse and not very characteristic pottery not preserved. The whole of the South Trench sector is very poor in pottery. The only notable find from the point of view of pottery was the deposit of small Middle Bronze jugs (Pt 416)

In the South sector, opening of a 4th trench -

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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